Managing Privacy While You Search

This is an important topic, highlighted by the Gonzales v. Google case we mentioned last week.

A couple of very helpful practical guides to what you should be doing to avoid privacy breaches:

Firstly, in today’s Wired a piece by Ryan Singel on How to Foil Search Engine Snoops, which has drawn comments from our friends at Search Engine Watch in the form of a great page on Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind

Among the topics addressed are
* Why Mozilla Firefox is a smarter choice
* Removing local search histories
* Care with cookie management
* Assessment of third part privacy enhancement services